I would like to thank Vivien from the Inspiration Bit blog for the wonderful interview that she did with me over the skype last Monday. You can read the blog post here: Social Media As A New Way of Doing Business
Thank you so much Vivien!
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I was supposed to blog about this event last week around Wednesday or Tuesday, but I simply didn’t get the time. We were so busy working on the client projects, that it was difficult to allocate free blogging time.
We had around 20 people attending this event at the Network Hub last Tuesday. For this session we managed to construct a simple website for an imaginary Dance and Modeling school (The Broadway School of Dance & Modeling) using the Joomla! CMS version 1.5. We also showed how Joomla! CMS could easily integrate with the other major social media services such as Flickr, YouTube, Google Calendar, and Eventbrite. The idea was to show people how to utilize the power of those great hosted solutions within their Joomla powered websites without having to do any crazy php software development.
A little facebook promotion wouldn’t hurt 
Would you care becoming our facebook page fan please? (I dislike the term fan) but supporter, encourager, and something in that category!
If you are on the facebook and would like to follow our news, events, products, services, and narcissistic self portraits while we are at work then click here to go to our facebook page.
You do need to have a facebook account to be able to see it of course!
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and btw your coffee really sucks!
Blenz Coffee, Wave Cafe and many indie coffee shops in Vancouver are offering free internet access. Wi-Fi access in Starbucks costs anywere from 8$ per hour to 35$ per month; what’s up with that?
We also want more electrical outlets in the stores.
Rebekka Guðleifsdóttir is an Art Student and a very talented photographer on the Flickr. Rebekka had posted a plea for help on flickr about a theft case involving an online retailer selling copycat art. She requested that people send the retailer letters concerning the issue, but in response, her original post was deleted by flickr admins.
Photography by Rebekka Guðleifsdóttir © all rights reserved
Rebekka’s deleted post had 450 long and meaningful user comments about how selling other people’s stuff for profit is a crime, including advices and suggestions on how to deal with it. This post had been viewed over 101,000 times at the time of deletion.